An Iroquois whom I at one time had treated kindly at Montreal, put me across in his canoe, and through respect carried me on his Every one received me with joy, and these shoulders, being unwilling to suffer me to wet my feet. conducted to another village a league distant, from their poverty. was enriched me people poor feast consideration who made a for me because I bore his father's where there was a young man of name, Ondessonk. The Chiefs came to harangue us, the one after the other. I baptized little skeletons who awaited, perhaps, only this drop of the precious blood of Jesus Christ.

They ask me why we are dressed in black 1 and I take occasion to speak to them of our mysteries with great attention They bring me a little moribund w?iom I call Dominick. The time They took me for a great Medicineis passed when they used to hide the little innocents from us. man, having no other remedy for the sick but a pinch of sugar. We pursued our route in the middle of which we found our dinner waiting for us. The nepheAV of the first Chief of the country, who is to lodge me in his cabin, is deputed by his uncle to escort us, bringing us every delicacy that the season could afford, especially new corn bread, and ears (of corn) which we had roasted at the We slept again tbat day by the beautiful fight of the stars. fire. There is 5th. We had to make four leagues before arriving at the principal Onondaga village. nothing but comers and goers on the road who come to salute me. One treats me as brother another A quarter of a league from the village I as uncle never did I have such a number of relations. much credit. named all the Chiefs; the families and persons began a harangue, which gained me of note in a drawling voice and with the tone of a chief.